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Around The Horn
19 March 2024
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Ludovica De Santis, failure, Leica's weak spot, a Nikon miss, new Hahnemuehle papers and composition.
- Magali Duzant reviews Onironautica, a photographic series exploring lucid dreaming by the Italian Ludovica De Santis. "I have always had a great sense of abstraction from reality, which is why I decided to delve into the dream dimension and its mechanisms," De Santis says.
- Failure is photography's "most powerful teacher," Derrick Story says in his latest podcast. He had been impressed by the risks attendees of his recent Photo Critique Workshop had taken knowing they would be evaluated by the group.
- Kirk Tuck finds A Weak Spot in the Leica System. "There are currently two Leica flashes on offer," he points out. "A big one and a small one. And, surprisingly or unsurprisingly, there seem to be no dedicated, automatic third party flashes at all." So event photography is a problem.
- In Another Nikon Miss, Thom Hogan reflects on the company's decision to terminate the Map view service in Nikon Image Space on May 20. "NIS is failing -- and not for the first time -- because Nikon doesn't know what it's for, doesn't know how to market and sell it and doesn't spend the resources to make it do what it needs to," he writes.
- Mark Segal reviews Four New Papers From Hahnemuehle: Bamboo Gloss Baryta, Silk Baryta X, Sustainable Photo Satin and Photo Rag Matte Baryta.
- In Composition Simplified, Jason Row makes the elusive subject approachable. "Of all the elements of photography, composition might seem the hardest to learn," he writes. "Some say that you cannot teach it, either you have it or you don't. I say we all have knowledge of it to some degree or another."
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